Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime
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"Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime" is an Scots poem written by Robert Burns.
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- Why should we idly waste our prime
- Repeating our oppressions?
- Come rouse to arms! 'Tis now the time
- To punish past transgressions.
- 'Tis said that Kings can do no wrong —
- Their murderous deeds deny it,
- And, since from us their power is sprung,
- We have a right to try it.
- Now each true patriot's song shall be: —
- 'Welcome Death or Libertie!'
- Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translate
- And canonize as Martyrs;
- The guillotine on Peers shall wait;
- And Knights shall hang in garters.
- Those Despots long have trode us down,
- And Judges are their engines:
- Such wretched minions of a Crown
- Demand the people's vengeance!
- To-day 'tis theirs. To-morrow we
- Shall don the Cap of Libertie!
- The Golden Age we'll then revive:
- Each man will be a brother;
- In harmony we all shall live,
- And share the earth together;
- In Virtue train'd, enlighten'd Youth
- Will love each fellow-creature;
- And future years shall prove the truth
- That Man is good by nature:
- Then let us toast with three times three
- The reign of Peace and Libertie!
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